Krishan Kumar
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Professor of Social and Political Thought, University of Kent at Canterbury, England. Author of Prophecy and Progress and others.
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Modernization, in sociology, the transformation from a traditional, rural, agrarian society to a secular, urban, industrial society. Modern society is industrial society. To modernize a society is, first of all, to industrialize it. Historically, the rise of modern society has been inextricably…
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